Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts

How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.

The principles of quantum physics—and the strange phenomena they describe—are represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the field, particularly Erwin Schr dinger, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg, to spend so much time reflectin…